RAGE

sweetness turns to anger

gentleness into rage

from one to another in an instant

like the turning of the page

an irrational insanity

that cuts into me like a knife

bleeding pain inside of me

draining me of my life

i’ve heard so many words

normal folks telling me what i should do

ideas and speculations all saying

this is what is wrong with you

i’ve tried to change this dark heart

so many times and many ways, but

it never seems to take hold; sadly

the anger and obsessions stay

and it gets to be very cold; still

i search the examples set before us

the standards of past ages supreme

to follow the upward path so perilous

and make a turn that’s extreme

to resist the loneliness, pain and

sadness that surround me

the anger and rage that burns inside

to stop the forces that invade me

at the river of agony where I died

flood waters wash me down helplessly

into the ravine of tremendous sorrow

and exquisite pain that spreads like disease

sown with the bitter seeds of pain and terror

reaping a harvest of constant unease

as i search for a way out

of the nightmare’s last stand

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